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>> all right. everybody. the four days of misery are finally over. and tug boats slowly pulled the triumph to alabama last night and people were literally kissing the ground as they got off the ship. engine failure, let that ship power for four days in the gulf of mexico and passengers without electricity or working toilets. now, to compensate, carnival said it would give each passenger $500, a free flight

home, a full refund for the subpoenases on the cruise and credit nor another carnival cruise. in the big picture i'm saying it will not hurt carnival in the long-term and they have plenty of insurance and get this, the triumph is bahamian flagged ship. so, if passengers want it to sue, they will have to go through the bahamas, not the u.s. judicial system. so, welcome home, everybody. let's see what you're going to get. a big welcome please for elizabeth mcdonald and joins me early this friday morning. we've got so much to get through. we need liz. >> i'm ready for you. >> the extravaganzaa, more personalities driving the news and let's start with nancy pelosi. she suggested that she opposes a pay cut for congress, because it would diminish the dignity of lawmakers' jobs. >> all right, liz, go at it. >> i'm not sure about the

dignity given what's going on in congress, but yes, i do have a lot of civil servants and firemen and teachers, but let hee back up. what she's talking about the cuts, spending cuts coming march first, meaning that congress would have to take a pay cut and i don't know if nancy pelosi wants to be taking like that, stuart when the congress is asking for more pay cuts from all americans and tax hikes. >> it sounds like a juxtaposition, doesn't it? don't cut my pay because it's undignified. you lost, you're going to have to take a pay cut. >> leaves you vulnerable to a lot of criticism. including issues of her taking junket trips on government planes. stuart: let's not forget that. >> all of that sound bite we're not going to run again, ladies and gentlemen, where she says you have to pass this bill to see what's in it, referring to obamacare. we're not going to run it, is that okay. and elizabeth warren also making headlines saying before congress yesterday, why don't any bank executives, why are they not in

jail? why aren't they being prosecuted? listen to this. >> there are district attorneys and u.s. attorneys out there every day squeezing ordinary citizens on sometimes very thin ground and taking them to trial in order to make an example, as they put it. i'm really concerned that too big to fail have become too big for trial. stuart: that's interesting, that's elizabeth warren, a lot to do with financial regulation, she's now a senator from massachusetts and she's-- i think that's a populous approach to take. >> and thinking that it's a conservative, true conservaaive first principles of capitalism approach. interesting coming out of senator warren. she's essentially saying that the bankers are too big to jail and also too big to manage and too big to fail and she doesn't like that and she's saying possibly, what i'm reading into what she's saying, bankruptcy should have been the course for breaking up the banks when they start today collapse in 2008. break them up and make them for

productive down the road. >> i think though that that message, jail a bank executive or two was maybe popular. i'm saying it's a populous approach and that may be politically popular whether they've broken the law or not is a different story, this this is politics and i say it's popular. >> now what, it was very difficult to jail any of these bankers because there was an account be fraud that was very difficult to prove because the rules allow this fraud to happen. >> now, i've got you here for another minute. what do you think of dodd frank? i mean, i don't like it, i think we should have broken up the banks as opposed to impose the regulatory bureaucracy. >> i think you should have broken up the banks and it's very difficult to legislate out of existence, corruption and we have all the rules in washington d.c. 1991 after the collapse, we had a systemic risk rule put in place and that's been there. what we need is more spines, in the enforcers in washington d.c.

they have the rules they need. stuart: i just don't like bureaucracy. that's my-- i don't like bureaucracy, clean cut laws and prosecute on the laws, that's what i want. stuart: bureaucracy perpetuates itself. >> it's we've listed the personalities in the news and more to come, but right now, check out this video of russia. a 11 ton meteor shot across the sky, faster than the speed of sound and when do you that you create a shock wave, that shattered windows and set off car alarms for miles and could see it for 125 miles. the witnesses say a burst of light and thundering sound that filled the air and hundreds were injured from broken windows, yes, it was the sonic boom that caused the damage. now, that's the only old of this world story today. nasa says an asteroids half the size of a football field will miss earth today by 17,000 miles, that actually is very,

very close. it's the closest known fly by for a rock of that size. it will pass inside orbitting satellites. don't worry it will not hit the earth. we are relybly informed. democrats continue to push, tax the rich. the latest pitch in 54 billion dollars brand new taxes on the rich and national review columnist joins me next and back on the opening bell which will be interesting this morning, in just a moment.

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and start loving life again, today. >> we're teeing off for the last trading session of the week. and the dow jones industrial average closed out around 13973 within striking distance of 14,000 and we're expecting the dow to actually be pretty flat as we open up trading this friday morning. and there's some stocks, big names in the the news, out with their earnings and food companies especially are going to be in the news this morning. and we've got stuff coming for you on herbal life which has been up and down like a yo-yo recently. all right, the bell is ringing, it's about to stop ringing and as i always say when it starts ristarts-- stops ringing the trading begins. and give me an opening trend. thank you very much be indeed. down a third of a point. not exactly an opening trend,

but it's a start. now we're up a half point. i told you flat. herbal life, that stock a guarantee is moving big today. day traders, keep an eye on this one. carl icahn revealed he's got a big stake in the company. it's a weight loss and vitamin company by the way. nicole, how big a gain. >> we're looking at herbalife expecting 20 cents to the upside and here it is, i'm going to bring you right to the post. okay, it's up 15% right now and what's so interesting is how carl icahn finally reveals that he does have this stake and head to head, and thought it was a house of cards, going to sear he owe and remember when icahn called a big loser and now he's going to short squeeze, and this is the battle of the billionaires. >> i hate to be technical, but this is what's called a short squeeze. all those people who bet the stock is going to go down, now

have to buy the stock because it's not going down, it's going up because of carl icahn, that's a short squeeze. >> and all of that that you take to the soda shop, that's a short squeeze, but this is a stock we're talking about. stuart: herbalife, day traders watch out this is moving sharply. dow jones industrials up in the first minute and a half 4 points. i told you flat. and the big name good companies are reporting profits. >> burger king, reported better than expected money coming in, helped by new menu additions, it went big. up 2%. and also moving is smucker's, of course, they make jam and jiffy peanut butter and folgers coffee and they did well, and up 42 cents, 92. but they had a 32% jump in profit and they're only up 1/2 a percent. let's see we've he got kraft and i can't list all the food

companies in the kraft umbrella. they made less money, less money came in and that's not hurting the stock how much. it's up 11 cents. so, food companies are in the news. what's making news this morning is the the continued gas price spike. look at this. we're now at 3.64. that's the national average for a gallon of regular. up another penny and a half overnight and keeps going up about a penny a night and it's up well over 30 cents in the month. and we are more, we're paying a whole lot more, and very clearly. all right, the national average spike, by the way, 35 cents in one month. and nasa spike. and you know, we're 46 days into the new year, we've seen taxes go straight up and we have another tax hike proposal today. here is columnist john fund from the national review. all right, john, here is what i say. that the second term of the administration is characterized by tax the rich, spend some more money, and ignore the debt. how far am i from the truth? >> well, i think that was the policy of the first term.

now they're just being explicit about it and honest about it because the president never has to face the voters again. >> is he going to get it, another tax hike on the rich and all of these spending plans that we heard about? >> well, you know, we have a weak economy right now. there's one school of economic thoughts, to monitorism to vegetarianism and you don't raise taxes in a weak economy. stuart: does at that count? is that high profile for most of us? >> well, that's what's fascinating about this president. i think it's the first president in my memory who's disconnected from policy and is all politics, pure politics, he wants to crush the republican opposition and reshape government and he wants to be the next liberal lbj or fdr. and the economy, well, it will sort itself out. >> now, the a latest democratic proposal is a big tax increase on people making more than 1 billion dollars a year, i misspoke, it's over 1 million dollars.

they want to take a third of your income by the feds alone. is he going to get that? is he going to get that through congress? will they do this? just political strategy? >> i don't think the president believes he will get much through congress, i think he wants to use it as a club to win back the house of representatives in 2014 and then a very impressive agenda to try to push through, including perhaps a value added tax, and that's what is happening. all of this is skirmishing, and we're in campaign mode for the 2014 election. >> do you think that's going to happen? more and more and more taxes? >> no, no, more and more proposals for taxes, if the president can't get them unless the democrats retake the house in 2014. stuart: tell me about ben carson, made a huge splash on the program. new face of conservativism. >> the new face of common sense, i'm a member of no party, if i were, it would be the common sense problem.

solutions to problems. and i think with his background, a distinguished physician and surgeon, someone who has helped thousands of people private scholarship funds. i think he has the moral authority and the standing to speak for much more than just conservatives. >> not heard the last of ben carson? this man is on a role and-- >> he's he retiring from active surgery in june and he says that opens up a whole lot of possibility and my piece on national review i speculate some of those may involve politics and punditry. >> in politics, what position could he run for? >> well, i don't think he's interested in this, but the governor of maryland is term limited and could run for that in 2014. i think in the modern america, you can have an enormous impact without necessarily serving elective office and i think his personality may be more suited towards being a national symbol of common sense. >> quickly, what he also said, too, in his speech. he's a doctor, doctors heal and

essentially say that people are in lawyers, lawyers like to fight. >> they're trained to win, we need to win over problems not just win over, you know, partisan bickering, and i think that kind of approach because 99% of americans are not lawyers, that appeals to them. >> yeah, but he also talked about he made a great case for the flat tax when he basically said that tithing. >> if it's good enough for the bible and the lord, it's good enough for us. stuart: interesting stuff. and don't be such a stranger to "varney & company." >> you call. stuart: blackberry's former chief is character out and selling stock. and what happened to the blackberry stock this morning. >> and sell it out. take a look here, down 1 1/2%. there were some other headlines this morning, too, they were considering exiting south korea so there are a few headlines surrounding blackberry and of course the big run-up, the following the blackberry 10 and

this crowd here with cvs just opened and. stuart: so we've got blackberry what was that, 15. >> 14, and-- >> ouch. and i interviewed the sierra club and kept pressing him on wind and solar versus fossil. >> what is nationally the percent of electricity in america supplied by wind today? >> i'll break it out by state for you, i'll give you ten states, iowa and. stuart: no, no, no, no. >> south dakota, 25%. stuart: all right, you did not answer the question, did not answer it directly. don't worry. steve goreham from the science coalition has the answer to my question and he'll present it to us today. ten o'clock this morning, what percentage of america's electric supply comes from wind? we've got the number. we want to hear from you,

please. varney@foxbusiness.com. don't be shy, chime in, please. it's friday. i've seven early movers, the network, testing equipment maki making agilent will not make as much as expected. and the future for the tech firm, log me in. down 25%. not the case, data link, an updated forecast there, the stock is up 8% and they're moving again. disappointing results from b and g food make accent and cream of wheat. down 5%. strong profits from the mortgage maker elie mae, down 12% there. the lower earnings at the software making q link technologies, better than expected and the sock is up a lot. and 17%. the dow has opened within hailing distance of 14,000.

first ten minutes of business, here we go, up 12, 13,985, let's get on with it, shall we, 60 seconds here we go of what else we're watching for you today. we say the housing market is a bright spot in the economy. accord to go one report. people with millions in the bank are not buying, they're renting. are they afraid of some kind of bubble here? what's going on. we'll talk to the wall street journal reporter who brought us the story and hidden implications of obamacare, they keep on coming. doctor shortages, employers cutting workers hours, but what about the farmer industry. should you be getting into drug stocks? here comes obamacare, should you buy them? we'll find out at 10:35 this morning with a premier analyst and yes, those pagans losers are at it again. this time and the university of missouri is honoring pagan and

wiccan holidays the same. and the price of oil, down sharply so, 95 a barrel. i'll be interested to see the price of gas with oil at 95. the rich are fleeing high tax states, moving to florida and other states. where there is no state income tax. our next guest, caters to the rich and she's seeing business booming in florida after this. (announcer) at scottrade, our clients trade and invest exactly how they want. with scottrade's online banking, i get one view of my bank and brokerage accounts with one login... to easily move my money when i need to. plus, when i call my local scottrade office, i can lk to someonwho knows how i trade. because i don't trade like everi'm with scottde.ke me. (announcer) scottrade. awarded five-stars from smartmoney magazine.

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>> well, we said we'd open floor and we are pretty flat. literally closer to 14,000 torques 13 point gain on this friday morning as of right now. and another example of what i'm calling the great tax migration, that is people moving from high tax states to new york and california over to florida to take advantage of lower tax

rates and next guest caters to the rich in florida and says that business could not be better. and here is lisa of quintessentially. i believe you took your business from the northeast to florida not because you wanted to escape high taxes, but because you were following the money that was going to florida. is that accurate? >> yes, absolutely, stuart and we have 65 offices around the world and our core business is obviously, life style management and private jets charter. and when we were looking three years ago at setting up operations of the jet business and in the u.s., we certainly will looking at growth patterns, obviously, and in each individual state, but likewise, we were looking at the migration of high net worth individuals to florida and we've seen the last number of years na business has grown, 18% in three years. and obviously, florida is very attractive for a number of reasons. stuart: wait a second, is it taxes? is taxes the primary reason that

people are leaving places like new york and going to florida, that's it, taxes? >> i think it's a number of reasons. i think taxes are certainly a huge and-- it's such a huge key factor, but i also think that you know, you've got great quality of life down here. obviously, the weather is pretty much perfect year round, but certainly, you know, we've seen a lot of big business, recently moved to miami and governor scott in florida has done a great job with incentivizing big business to move to miami pand the hedge fund managers, apex fund services and all of these type of big business and big finance caters to these types of clients in this region and i think, certainly, miami is a lot more than beaches and cruise ships, now, there's a great cultural revival, huge emphasis on contemporary art and philanthropy. so it offers a total life style

choice for these type of giants. >> do you encourage the tax, i'm not going to call it tax avoidance, but minimizization angle of your business, do you? >> well, i'm just happy that business is doing well, you know? and so we're global with 65 offices and look after clients all over the world, but certainly business is doing very well here and we have seven offices alone inside of america so it's very important for us to be, to have set up a hub in florida to cater to those clients. >> last one lisa. >> a lot of money-- >> if you look at it globally, you've got 65 offices around the world and give me a global picture here. would it be true to say there is a trend away from high tax countries towards lower tax environments, i mean, is that a generally, a trend that you've observed? >> yes, absolutely. i mean, you even need to look at celebrities or the likes of phil mickenson said he's moving to

florida because of tax rates. stuart: hold on a second. did he announce that he is leaving california or did he-- >> i believe i heard -- well, maybe he's just thinking of it. i'm not sure i don't want to be the one to break that scoop, but i heard-- i certainly heard that you know, he was considering it and a number of the big golfers are based out of florida for similar reasons and obviously the great golf courses, but, and you know, we do see that trend, absolutely. stuart: all right. lisa, thanks very much for joining us. i can can see florida attractive. back drop to your shot is an oxana palm tree. come to see us soon. >> thank you. stuart: and 9:48. gold report. barely above 1600 an ounce. okay, we're down today. the pagans losers at it again. this time here at home.

wiccan and pagans holidays treated just like christmas at one university here in america. find out which one in a moment.

>> you know, we're always talking about pagans losers in europe, that's my expression and i use it it a lot. okay? but the united states might not be too far behind. the university of missouri has put wiccan and pagans holidays on a par with christmas, thanksgiving, hanukkah. the school is making an effort to include everyone's belief. liz, you're still with me. i want to know is there no belief system, any belief system which we will not put on a par with christianity, judaism or established religions? >> it seems like we're headed that way because of the freedom of religion. but the internal revenue service does not to my mind recognize wiccanism as a eligion and hasn't organized has a nonprofit.

this is an excuse not to be a cannibal, an excuse for the students not a study and halloween at the mid term and a way to look at it. stuart: i think it's more than that. this is paganism making an entrance into the united states encouraged by our universities and the inability to make a moral judgment. you know, you're not allowed to make a moral judgment in america today. are you? oh, paganses, just fine, bring on board, we'll give you a holiday. >> 1% of americans say they're wiccans and goes against the work ethics, judeo-christian work ethics to say you don't have to study at university of missouri we'll let you not study during your wiccan holidays. stuart: i'll try to calm down. thank you for being with us. >> delighted. three big super rich personalities in the news. george soros, new secretary of

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18, you always have the war among you. forgive me but i will turn that around. the rich are among us and they are front and center this friday morning. warren buffett wants to pile on the tax for millionaires. the man worth tens of billions has given his name to a new proposal adopted by the democrats. it will take 30% from anyone who makes $1 million the year and that is just from the fed's. billionaire george soros made another $1 billion profit by betting that the japanese yen would go down in value. he is making money from the policies he recommend that supports. newly installed secretary of state john kerry got a windfall from warren buffett, his wife is

an heir to the hines fortune, warren buffett bob heintz for $28 billion. the stock goes up, the kerris did well. fascinating. the mega rich turn left, strivers pay the price. that is the way they get the strivers blood pumping friday morning. let me introduce my fellow strivers, fox news contributor monica crowley, charles payne big grin, nicole petallides on the floor of the stock exchange. ready or not the buffet rule is back in the democrats's latest plan. they want to bring in $54 billion from the wealthiest americans and biggest corporations. what do you say to this? >> the democrats want evermore taxes. they will never stop asking for more taxes. we are taxed enough already.

[talking over each other] >> the original movement, taxing enough already. democrats are all already have a massive tax hike on the wealthiest, on job creators, on small businesses when they got the top marginal rates to go up 239.6%, now they want even more on those highest earners and i emphasize they are the job creators in this country. stuart: wait a second. not sure how to word this but democrats are going to say you republicans, you are just protecting your millionaire friends. if you don't allow this tax increase on millionaires to go through, you have to cut back on the head start program, we got to cut back on domestic spending programs which are vital. you enjoy millionaire house, say it all over again, holding things up. >> that is the political argument they have started to make an been making over the last couple years. i emphasize they already got a tax increase and a massive one on the highest earners. these are the job creators.

this is nothing to do with extending and growing this economy or job creation. this is about class warfare and radical wealth redistribution. stuart: pure politics, a purely political, nothing to do with the running of the economy whatsoever. charles: the ultimate dream is a gigantic government that knows everything but is expensive to have a government that has its hands in every aspect of our lives. stuart: if are we selling a lie? the lie is that the rich can pay for all, we can have all these goodies, the rich will pay, they cannot pay. stuart: charles: what we just saw with a payroll tax hike, no one advertised that. everyone said this is a war the rich will pay their fair share and the average guy out there got his shack and said what is going on and california props 30 we're going to -- of a sudden did this or paying higher sales tax, don't care if you make a thousand year or millions.

[talking over each other] >> the so-called buffet rule would generate $55 billion coming in to the treasury. the federal government for five they spending $10.5 billion a day. the hurricane sandy bill white's it all out. stuart: not all of $56 billion come from the superrich. if they hire somebody overseas they get hit with an extra tax bill and oil companies if they use tar sands which is not good for the environment they pay a tax too. i will break away and look at the big board because we got back to $14,000 on the dow industrials, we are up 27 points and a half-hour's worth of business this morning. i will break away again for a stock, ups. it is moving.

nicole: looking at ups, stock is up 1.5%, a couple pieces of news giving the stock a boost. also announcing a buyback of $10 billion, that $10 billion buyback, these two things put together, it is a new annual high. stuart: you raise the dividend. a lot of people find that attractive, ubs at 89. yesterday on "varney and company" the sierra club's executive director would not answer this question. listen. what is the national percentage, the percentage of electricity supply in america by wind today? >> i will break out by state, ten states, iowa -- [talking over each other] stuart: he would not answer the question. let's bring in someone who will, and joining me is steve gorham,

climate science executive director. the question was i will pose all over again, what is the percentage of electricity in the united states supplied by wind? >> great to join you. the answer is in 2011 there were 39,000 wind turbines operating in the united states that produce 2.9% of our electricity compared to coal at 42%. stuart: 2.9% is miniscule. if the environmentalists get their druthers and we subsidize wind power for another ten years, what proportion of the electric supply might it go up to supplied by wind? >> hard to tell. if we build 1 million wind turbines i don't know if we have the subsidies to do that. there is one big secret they don't tell you about and that is wind turbines don't reduce

emissions and the reason is wind turbines only put output of 25% to 30% cheryl: output so behind them you have to have a coal or gas plant. since the wind goes up and down very fast the coal and gas plant have to go up and down very fast and run inefficiently. just like your car when you go ten miles in stock and go traffic or ten miles on the freeway you use more energy stop and go and you put out much more emissions so by building wind systems we are creating stop and the utilities. stuart: a second question and again this was a statement from the sierra club guy yesterday and he said that using green energy is cheaper, the cost of green energy is cheaper than fossil fuel costs. team made that blunt statement. what do you say? >> it is not correct.

prices are difficult to determine. the best estimates are done by the u.s. department of energy. they do thing called love allies cost which takes into account all the capital costs of various plants but they indicate you can't really compare solar and wind to traditional forms of electricity because they count on the weather and the sun cycle but their estimates for 2011 placed wind at about $0.10 per kilowatt hour, coal and $0.09 per kilowatt hour, gas at $0.07 per kilowatt hour. let me add something. the department of energy added in artificial carbon costs to gas and coal which are not there today unless the senate passes a carbon tax bill and in addition, you have to build a coal and gas plant along with the wind

systems so wind only replaces the variable cost of these plants. variable costs for coal is $0.03 per kilowatt hour and for gas about $0.05 per kilowatt hour so we in, on land wind is 2 to 3 times as expensive. offshore wind at $0.20 per kilowatt hour, solar at 20 to $0.30 per kilowatt hour, much more expensive. if you think they are competitive why does he keep pushing for subsidies and mandates so that wind and solar are adopted. stuart: we hear you and thank you for the objective opinion and the facts behind this story. we do appreciate you being with us. come back again because this is going to be an ongoing conversation. thanks a lot. let's move on to her life. that stock is moving big-time. carl icahn hasbal life. that stock is moving big-time. carl icahn has a big stake in.

stuart: bill packman said last year this is a fraud and he has been more -- stuart: drove the stock down. charles: real famous investor, real famous -- he said it was a fraud, stop immediately collapsed, wall street taking his word. some guys just as smart and rich as him saying weight of a minute, dan load is not a big-time guy with respect to media, he took an 8% stake as high as 68 but the big news is carl icahn involved, carl icahn has a 12.98% stake. he knows how to play this game as well as anyone else and that is why the stock is up. stuart: i don't want to get into technicalities but you drive the stock down, he drove it down, a lot of people betting it keeps on falling so they establish what is called a short position. along, these two investors, mr. loeb and carl icahn and they say hold on a second, we have a

stake in this thing and the media be the stock starts to go up so those people who are betting it was going to go down got to buy it. charles: how much nehr do you have? it can go to zero. when you short a stock, piling from a firm, and buy it at two and payback the firm to make a difference but when you short your loss to the unlimited it can go from 10 to 1 zillion dollars a share. the average person playing this game is really nervous. he is not going to blink initially, but this is a wild game going on and some heavyweight guys throwing serious punches. phil: you don't want to say anything about a short squeeze. [talking over each other] stuart: carnival cruise ship stranded for days made an non triumphant return to mobile,

passengers kissing the ground after days without power or working toilets. they will give passengers $500 cash, free flight home, full refund for the trip and for most of the expenses they incurred, and it is compensation. these problems flagged carnival cruise lines the insurance has uncovered on the financial side. a pr problem, not so much a financial problem. charles: could be a major financial problem because he are is what they live for. you have fun. stuart: you assume future bookingss will be down because of this nasty episode. charles: you have to make that assumption. stuart: wait for my take. charles: two of them, i know there are people with a thousand cruises but a lot of people will not go back. with the other disasters they are involved in in the mediterranean the stock is around 46 and down to 30 and did

come back. stuart: came back to 37. charles: didn't go back to 46 and i got to tell you something. i would be nervous if i was a shareholder. >> i never take a cruise but there are enough horror stories is just being the latest one that in particular carnival has a brand problem. the name of this ship triumph -- nothing triumphant about this but if they have a serious branch problem, this is not for first-time this is happen to a carnival cruise. charles: they have done amazing job democratizing this type of travel. back in the day ocean liner travel you wore a tuxedo and a dinner with the captain and as for the privilege too like stuart varney -- stuart: you will learn more about my cruising habit in my taking ten minutes. hold on. walmart down. why is it down? nicole: a couple talking points

on walmart. in the british supermarket, you are familiar with that than i am, they cooled off the bowlen a's and other things, beef costs and other things to do a precautionary move. that is not good news. i have a note from cleveland research company and this is interesting talking about consumer spending and all of america and how spending is looking a little softer in the last three to four weeks due in part to a row and social security tax increases, delayed tax returns and rising gasoline prices. you know what they say? if this current weakness persist that you may see walmart react with more excessive pricing and merchandising which could impact their gross margins. not good. stuart: the interesting point is the softness in spending because payroll tax going up and gas prices going up is a national

indicator. nicole: can i say something about carnival? that is why i think people will book those trips. everybody is looking for a bargain. they have short-term memory, the stock may not recover to earlier levels but there bookings -- stuart: when yet again nicole petallides is right because thank you very much. excellence of. that was interesting. spending is off because of tax increases and gas prices going up. i have got to go. rich people got millions of dollars in the bank. they can buy mansions in the most exclusive neighborhoods but they don't. they rent. a lot of them do. we will find out more about renting versus buying and why people are doing it after this. today is gonna be an important day for us.

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boom, a shock wave. that broke windows and set off car alarms, left the trail of white smoke all the way through 125 miles. it did not actually hit the earth, broke up, a couple chunks hit here and there but no big step. there was a burst of light, a thundering sound filling the air and hundreds of people were injured by flying glass. the sonic boom broke windows. that caused the damage. there's also this. nasa says an asteroid half the size of a football field will miss the earth today by 17,000 miles. it will pass inside orbiting satellites. that is very close by space standards i guess. fear not, it will not hit the earth but is a close shave. here is another sign of what some say is a weak economy. even the rich are renting property, houses. candace jackson wrote about this

in the wall street journal and joins us now. i read your article in you start off with a friend of this program, don peebles, wealthy guy, he is renting a place in manhattan for $35,000 a month. he is renting, not buying. why are rich people renting and not buying? >> a variety of reasons. the calculus is similar for regular people. if you are living summer two three years it might not be worth it to buy. others see a lot of instability in the markets so they are nervous even though they could afford to buy and -- stuart: is that accurate? some very rich people are worried about another downturn in housing? >> perhaps not another downturn that they won't get the return on their investments. the other factors markets are doing well these days. folks like don peoples or other wealthy people who cannot afford to invest in the stock market or elsewhere within their own business are choosing to do that instead of putting the bulk of their money in real estate.

stuart: you say the don peoples of this world, people like that are saying i will get a better return in the stock market than i am in the high end property market? >> that is what a lot of people are saying, what a lot of people said, putting money back into their own business today. stuart: charles payne has been saying exactly that. i say the best investment in america is a single-family home in a good neighborhood, not a penthouse at $50,000, single-family home and a good neighborhood, charles disagreeing with me, stocks are better. stuart: is a great investment. stuart: charles: everyone should strive to own a home. >> if you are buying a home for just a few years are you going to get a return on your investment? probably not. we are not in a bubble era where you're getting 20% year. stuart: you talk to people with $50 million, hundred dollars worth of capital behind them or

more. >> a lot of these folks the and many homes so they might have three or four five houses to jews marked to market where they see it is worth it to make that investment. maybe they rent in new york but by and miami. [talking over each other] >> i am curious about the flexibility element in terms of uncertainty in the rest of the economy. texas might be going up in new york city, new york state, california, in illinois. a lot of people want the flexibility to say i don't own this property. i can do that anytime. i can moving six months and go. there is a huge part of it. the same way it would be for middle-class person. that is the benefit of renton, superflexible, pull up and go, you got that money freed up to do something else with. a lot of the wealthy are losing a lot. charles: what percentage should pay i got it like that?

someone can rent a house in the hamptons for $1 million for a couple months in the summer. i marvel at rent a yacht for $200,000. caught it like that. >> it used to be the trophy estate. now the trophy rental. this is another trophy you can have. i am paying $500,000 a month for this crazy and house on central park. another thing you can do so not? [talking over each other] stuart: you write for the mansion section appears on fridays in the wall street journal and you wrote this article. thank you very much. appreciate it. carnival cruise public-relations disaster but only in the short term. that is my opinion and that will be my cake and it is next.

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stuart: the dow within ten points of 14,000. there you have it. general motors made some ground over the last year but it is down today and always the question why? nicole: a couple things. you have an analyst downgrade

down 2%, another analyst who goes by on the weakness. one of the victims of general motors talking over the last 24 hours, they seem to be happy, he was counting about chevrolet, gmc, cadillac, they have a nice array of vehicles in the brands to offer customers and the corvette. seems like they have a great bright future. stuart: dry what -- hy wonder what would happen -- [talking over each other] nicole: what we have all been through for the chevy volt. i would have to go to gm and talk to somebody. stuart: when i suggest i might buy one, no idea how many e-mails we got. thank you very much. i got to move on to a top story. one college basketball player could lose out on millions of dollars after suffering a serious knee injury. could this have been avoided?

the loss of money? we will talk about the rule that forces kids to go to college out of high school instead of straight to the nba. that is at 10:45. all morning we have been showing you the passengers finally getting back on dry land after four days drifting at sea on a cruise ship without power, it has not been pretty. have the horror stories put you off of taking the cruise? have a? here is my take. no. i don't think it will put people off cruising. i don't think bookings will take a hit, full disclosure, i have only been on one crews in my life and i am not planning to take another. seasickness gets to me, not the fear of being without a bathroom for four days. people who like cruising, people who find a cheap and convenient vacation will still line up for more. why am i so sure of this? because of history. last year another carnival ship ran aground off the coast of

italy, people were killed, terrible publicity. the captain was wining and dining young lady when it happened. let's not forget the cruise ships that have been hit with mass sickness. did all of that damage the cruise business? it didn't. carnival stock has gone up over the last year because passenger levels stayed strong. could it be that the public is actually very smart and recognizes a good deal when it sees it? could be that intelligent people are not swayed by bad publicity? they understand playing the odds. that is what you are seeing. a successful capitalist enterprise that offers a usually quality product at a good price, tons of food, dancing, drinking -pwithout worrying about drivin exotic destinations easily visited, sex at sea, a fantastic deal as long as you don't get seasick.

stuart: charles will make some money, roasters -- charles: almost as crazy as herbal, 33% short position. i don't know why they hate the stock so much, it has done extraordinarily well, compounded growth has been phenomenal but there pounding it nevertheless earnings estimates consistent we

can go got, break through 50 on the stock, looking for a move of 56 or higher. stuart: 45 right now. charles: sales will increase, margins get better and i got to tell you that starbucks product was that on arrival. not saying they won't have more competition but this is a stock that will make a gigantic move at some point this year. stuart: it is 10:35 eastern time and at that moment in time charles payne said he will make money -- charles: is extraordinarily volatile. stuart: when you own it? before our subscribers own stock. [talking over each other] charles: right up front. stuart: did you buy and hold it? [talking over each other] charles: it is 56 on monday i will sell it. [talking over each other] stuart: let's stay on the markets with obamacare stocks and the farm industry. joining us now is kathryn

arnold, credit suisse managing director and global head of pharmaceuticals, welcome to the program. here comes obamacare fully enough for implementation. i by pharmaceutical stocks going into obamacare? >> you don't want to buy them for obamacare. doesn't have a lot. you might be surprised by bringing twenty-five million lives. why isn't that a big deal? those wives don't use a lot of drugs, only 1 prescription herman van the drug industry has to pay a tax and the government will want better pricing. we are at a point -- stuart: i will deal with that first. obamacare, here comes, you are saying it is not a big boost for pharmaceutical stocks. it is not there, the big money maker. >> hasn't dropped to a meaningful way. stuart: coming out of that use a look get the pipeline. that is not the keystone pipeline. that is the drug that drug company has coming down the pike that are going to hit the market

in the future. some of these stocks have a great pipeline. is that what you said? >> there are some stocks were that is in the stock price and some are not. the industry went to a big drought and we have break throughs in many areas. for example really sophisticated stuff happening and we are almost seeing cure rate in the drug the late stages development. stuart: hold on a second. you say cancer, new arrivals in the drug market, here they come, give me the name of the drug company that has got a big breakthrough in the cancer area. >> bristol-myers has an approach which is very sophisticated, basically gets your body to fight cancer which is different from what we used to do which was to 4.and against the tumor. stuart: bristol-myers's new approach and you like it. >> it is a very good story. stuart: do you own it? >> i do not.

stuart: you wanted to get in. charles: i gave up on these big drug companies along time ago in part for the pipelines, also because the model, in other words they spent all this money, agreed these products and ultimately a generic version of it is going to go so the window of opportunity seems still small, seems like the real excitement and the big bang has been in biotech. >> unfortunately good things take patience and hard work the have a breakthrough on the drug's side. is a cyclical thing too. you have seen a lot of years where it hasn't been great. we are in place for 80% of prescriptions are generic now so we are close to the bottom in terms of beating down the generic against the brand and we are in a new cycle on the product side. i would take another look at the drug industry. stuart: back to hepatitis, literally cure rates are going up? give me a name of the drug company. >> three drug companies, the biotech company, abbott and bristol-myers all have hepatitis treatment we have seen peak

their data which suggests over 90% of patients can be cured that is huge. it was 50% and the standard of care we have today, it is a very big deal with more data on this. stuart: when you own billy ed? >> i do not. stuart: and that is the hepatitis people. >> that is correct. stuart: bristol-myers is the new approach for cancer. >> work as well as the new treatment. it is exciting. stuart: it is very interesting to get real names, real products. >> what about the aging population, alzheimer's and other dementia drugs? >> this year has been somewhat controversial but we know more about alzheimer thanks to lily's program. it suggests positive for all virus which is good -- stuart: lily, alzheimer's, making that connection.

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charles: a lot of people are afraid of stocks that cause $100 a share and say it is expensive. my hypothesis is most stocks are undervalued, $10 a share are overvalue and share price has nothing to do with value. stuart: lee, wrangler? charles: it is a juggernaut. stuart: come in, brian kilmeade, a host of fox and friends, three sports stories for you, rapid-fire. first item, kentucky basketball player blew out his knee, out for the season, would have been the no. one pick in the nba but because of a rule that he had to go to college for a year before entering the nba he may have lost a ton of money. here is what i say. you should be able to go straight from high school to the nba. this is america. you make money you should be getting the money. >> if you are in tennis or golf,

fine. we are simulcasting on the fox business network on "varney and company". that is fine but in this case in particular, i love that the nba made this rule. it saved to a degree college basketball because you get a chance to see these guys who are not quite ready to go to the pros and you see these guys on the national stage and see if they have what it takes. the insurance policy, we can lend them money, $40,000, insurance policy if something happens. he is going to recover from this, he can't play he will get $5 million. there's a -- stuart: you cannot run out:00 on "varney and company". you are totally wrong. this is america. you do something you should get paid for. next case south carolina football player is considering taking out a $5 million insurance policy on his health, expected to be the top pick in the nfl draft.

your reaction to a $5 million insurance policy, to get out himself. >> the nfl does not want anything to do with getting our guys directly from high school. would you are forgetting is societal part of being pro and being very rich very young and hanging out with men are 30, 35 years old. they are ready for. you see a lot of these guys never reach their potential because they can't break the starting lineup, not mike stuart varney if he was my agent for the agent if i had the ability i thought i had and went pro. they are not ready for this. emotionally they are not ready, not kevin garnett for kobe bryant, they were ready to agree, but i think for the most part, there is a chance you're going to get hurt. there are insurance policies out there, take out the insurance policy, tim tebow did the same thing, and north carolina, the end of having find careers in the pros and still having to be smart about it and not give up

their future. stuart: i am going to move on. wrestling, international olympic committee says wrestling will not be in the olympics starting in 2020. i think that is terrible and i cannot understand why you would get rid of a sport that had 26 different countries and metals in london last year in wrestling. why would you take it out of the olympics? >> i feel so bad for wrestlers. i would argue that sports builds more character, more self-esteem and finer citizen than any other sports because it is 24 hours, watch what you eat, train, be focused, a lonely sport to a degree and you can be in any shape or size and compete in the highest level and the expectations for through the roof and if they're going to overturn this and there's another vote in september as much as i love wrestlers like kerri mccoy, they have got to get the celebrities that were once wrestlers liked donald rumsfeld and robin williams and

john irving great offer, kevin james, people like dennis pastor, the speaker, you get these people from the political world and show business world to talk about what it has done, champions that had their life formed by this sport which has taken such a beating at the college level because of title ix, you got to turn this back. iraq loves it, bulgaria loves it, russell of the, america loves it, modern pentathlon, only played in asian countries, it is outrageous. what do you need for wrestling? you need a match which they clean themselves. what do you mean -- a gun and a horse -- [talking over each other] stuart: give this guy time on "varney and company" -- are we done? yes we are done. that was reasonably good stuff. thanks for joining us. we may see you again. >> have a good weekend. stuart: nancy pelosi doesn't want a pay cut. you wants to keep her dignity.

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stuart: son power corporation. charles: solar panels, residential, commercial, they will make some much money over the next four years and it is a reality and -- stuart: when you are a child of government subsidies. charles: they will get my tax money i hope i can make it back on the stock. a big move already consolidate those gains in the next move through 12, no resistance. stuart: they make solar panels and you think we're all going to buy these things and install them. charles: earnings estimates this fiscal year have gone in the last couple weeks from $0.21 to $0.42. next year the street said we would make $0.40 and the street is looking at $0.52, this stock use the $72 a share. you don't have to like it. i don't. stock will make a lot of money to the upside. i hate how they are doing it but -- stuart: 10:54 eastern time. next nancy pelosi says she opposes a pay cut for congress because it would diminish the

dignity of lawmakers jobs. >> the dignity. they never want to cut spending in any way, shape or form and won't start with their own salaries but she has some nerve talking about the dignity issue. nancy pelosi is fabulously wealthy on her own, she could stand to take a pay cut. if they really want dignity they should turn it by actually passing a budget. wouldn't that be nice? stuart: last word on this program, very good. we got more time. the highlight reel is coming up next. how do traders using technical analysis streamline their process?

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stuart: the highlight reel for the week. do not correct me. >> i will not. stuart: mike reagan, the voice of reason. nicole: my celebrity look-alike. stuart: rich edson does stand up comedy. you still